Karyn Erdman

[Lassoism - For the love of Ted Lasso @TedLassoism]

"The Parting Glass"... Goodbye Mae #TedLasso #S04E10 #BeingAlive

[Karyn Erdman @kepeaches]

@Dukeblogger Frankly recruiting rankings are the same.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

This was and is truly the Entire Point of Republican governance.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

New mandatory cuts from the federal government on water from the Colorado River will soon take effect in Arizona, Nevada and California. Now, some water managers in the region are spending billions to prepare for a drier future.

Special correspondent Ben Tracy of @ClimateCentral has more.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Teachers can’t even give kids Tylenol without their parents’ permission. If you believe this you’re a fucking idiot.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

One day after @jaredkushner took to this platform to insist his work diplomatically is unconnected to his business interests, the Times drops this one

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

WSJ Exclusive:

The Trump admin used federal funds from the Department of Homeland Security to finance those controversial pro-Trump ads that started airing on TV.

The taxpayer money used to fund the ads came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. https://t.co/77aZN8whX7

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

MANUFACTURED. THE WHOLE CRISIS WAS MANUFACTURED

Whistleblowers inside the Kennedy Center are now saying what everyone suspected the second Trump installed himself as chairman

Officials halted repairs that were already planned and paid for. Then pointed at the building falling apart and used it as the excuse to shut the place down

You break it on purpose. Then you "discover" it's broken. Then you get to close it, gut it, remake it however you want

That's not mismanagement. That's a con job with a building as the mark

Trump didn't take over the Kennedy Center to protect the arts. He took it over to control who gets a stage and who doesn't

Staff who spent years running that institution are now watching it get dismantled by people who created the emergency they're "solving"

Artists losing bookings. Programs getting cut. A cultural institution that survived five decades of actual wear and tear now collapsing because Trump's handpicked board needed a pretext

This is the same playbook every single time. Manufacture the crisis. Point at the wreckage. Claim you're the only one who can fix it

He did it to the press. He did it to the courts he doesn't like. Now he's doing it to a building full of pianos and stagehands

Half the country will read this and shrug because it's "just" the Kennedy Center

Watch how fast that shrug turns into rage when they do this exact move to something you actually care about

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

How Trump Became Mob Boss of the United States

The most corrupt president in American history has been preparing his entire life to co-opt the government for personal gain

https://t.co/bJp5MHHers

[Barbara Stewart Ward 🌈🟧 @Bebes_Scrubs]

Had to steal this one.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

More than 167,000 pounds of beef, pork and goat meat are being recalled after they were produced without the required federal inspection and labeled with a false inspection sticker, according to the Department of Agriculture. https://t.co/jj7HuvS2np

[Vanessa @Nessakins_]

You wanna know why? Cuz the nerd that created this map found more than 300,000 surveillance devices. Flock only publicly reported 120,000

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: OpenAI’s technology went rogue and meddled with three U.S. government websites this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge. https://t.co/6kfc7qzrsh

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

Bloomberg just dropped the most disturbing investigation I have read this year, and every AI builder should read it and take it seriously.

On February 28, two Tomahawk missiles hit an elementary school in Minab, a small town in southern Iran. 156 people died. At least 123 were children. The Pentagon knew within hours that it had bombed a school.

The school had its own website. It was labeled on Google Maps. You could see the soccer pitch from a satellite view. You could see the brightly painted walls. Any 12-year-old with a browser could tell what the building was.

The AI system could not.

Inside US Central Command, personnel were using Palantir's Maven Smart System. It is an AI targeting platform running on a $1.3 billion Pentagon contract, and embedded inside it is Anthropic's Claude.

On day one of the war, more than 1,000 targets went through it in 24 hours. Work that used to take a team hours per target got compressed into minutes.

The satellite imagery Maven was pulling from was seven years old. The site was still tagged in the database as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard facility.

The system spat it out as a recommended day-one target. Humans signed off. The first missile flew. Then a second one landed minutes later to hit the people who came to help.

Investigators later found that some Central Command staff had assumed Maven would flag stale intelligence for them. It did not. Nobody had told it to.

Palantir told Bloomberg the government is responsible for the underlying data. The Pentagon's civilian harm mitigation team, the people whose actual job is to catch a target like this, had been cut back before the war started.

This is not AI going rogue. This is the opposite.

This is AI doing exactly what it was built to do at exactly the speed it was built to do it. And a school full of little girls got vaporized because the humans in the loop trusted the machine more than they trusted their own eyes.

I keep thinking about the version of this story that comes next. What happens when the system is faster. When the target list is not 1,000 in a day but 10,000. When "review" becomes a button the operator has three seconds to hit before the next target loads. When there is no human left slow enough to notice that a soccer pitch is not a helipad.

We are not talking about a spam filter mislabeling an email. We are talking about a system that turned a seven-year-old database entry into two cruise missiles landing on children in the middle of a morning class.

A UN-backed panel has now called it a potential war crime.

In terms of children killed, it is the deadliest American targeting error of the entire 21st century. And according to Bloomberg, some of Defense Secretary Hegseth's own advisors are worried that too much public scrutiny of Maven might slow down its adoption inside the Pentagon.

Read that last line again.

If you build this stuff, you own what it does. You do not get to hide behind "the government owns the data." The whole pitch of your product is that speed and integration save lives. When it takes them instead, that is also on you.

I am not against AI in defense. I am against AI in a hurry. Speed is the entire mechanism that made Minab possible. Every guardrail we already know how to build takes time, and time is exactly what the system was designed to eliminate.

So here is the question I have not been able to stop asking, and I genuinely want to know what you think.

If a piece of software helped kill 123 children in a single morning while behaving exactly as designed, what does "responsible AI" even mean anymore?

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Arizona Sheriff who ended the Flock camera contract in his county:

If we rely on private camera networks to continuously log the habits of innocent Americans without a warrant, we are paving the way to an AI-driven surveillance state. We must establish clear boundaries for automatic license plate readers. We cannot wait for a future Supreme Court ruling to correct AI overreach. We must protect the Fourth Amendment today.

[Karyn Erdman @kepeaches]

@Dukeblogger NGL haven’t followed him closely. I was shocked by this reaction. Was NOT expecting it. Should I have been?

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: The Trump regime has been lying about the full number of U.S. service member deaths in Trump’s Iran War, six U.S. officials tell The Washington Post. https://t.co/C39nEnXHzr

[Bloomberg @business]

Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt https://t.co/3EJl5y8Cj4